It is a sad day. 50 years ago Dr. Deming talked about typical US response is management blaming the workers for failing to do proper inspections when the tools provided didn't do the job. I'm sure most airport screeners wanted to do a good job but a few didn't or couldn't. Instead of weeding these few out and improving the equipment, we get rid of all of them. Obviously a political move. Maybe we should federalize all Firestone workers to solve the tread separation problem too. I'm sure once the Federal workforce is in place, you will see either no change or worse screening until the equipment is updated.